Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education

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Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education
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One of the reasons we got public education in the first was that the factory owners needed workers who could learn how to operate complex machines and do math. Easier to get the public to pay than teach them on the owner's dime.

Yeah, but then they moved all the factories to other countries. The public is now just a burden to them for wanting corporations to pay their fair share in taxes.

Once the public have no power and no influence there's no need to listen to them or consider their needs.

The US still has an enormous manufacturing footprint. Yes, a lot was moved overseas, but hardly all of them.

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